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November 09, 2010

Globe and Mail: Group seeks to enlist Internet companies in its battle against anti-Semitism

by Daniel LeBlanc
The Globe and Mail

A coalition of politicians from around the world will gather in the United States next year in the hopes of convincing major Internet companies to play a bigger role in the fight against anti-Semitism and remove offensive material from their websites.

The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (ICCA) has ratified the Ottawa Protocol this week, which aims to implement a series of measures to put an end to hateful propaganda in places like universities. In particular, the group aims to stop the growth in the criticism of Israel and its policies that, it says, is increasingly a vehicle for anti-Semitism.

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